No. 4 (2023): INTERDISCIPLINARITY. Between words and deeds
Interdisciplinarity is a mainstream concept in education and research: it is one of the most present lemmas in pedagogical texts; it appears as the primary approach to guide training, scientific and teaching activities in the national Guidelines; the European Union placed it among the main evaluation criteria for research funding; there is also the Oxford Handbook dedicated to the interdisciplinarity.
But what exactly does “interdisciplinarity” mean? And beyond the good intentions which inspire the several documents about this subject, what does planning, studying, teaching and learning according to an interdisciplinary method concretely entail?